Welcoming the Year of the Dragon

Eric Bornstein of Behind the Mask Theater and I are having a lot of fun working on a show together. We will be at the Peabody Museum on January 21st at 2pm. Hope you have a chance to take a look at the videos the folks at the Peabody put together:
Laughing Buddha (Eric Bornstein)

Monkey King (Margaret Moody)

The Peabody calendar is at www.peabody.harvard.edu/calendar.

I'll be at the Puppet Showplace in Brookline Village on Wednesday and Thursday morning, January 18 and 19, at 10:30 am. For more about the theater, which produces all kinds of interesting puppet shows: puppetshowplace.org.

 --- Margaret

Trolls in the Kitchen, January 7th

Our Arlington Center for the Arts puppet series continues on January 7th at 2 pm with "Trolls in the Kitchen", a Swedish tale. When the helpful tomte in Trinka's kitchen move out, raucous trolls move in. Please join us for the show, and stay for coffee and puppet-play afterwards. Tickets $5 at the door or by e-mailing me at galapagospuppets@gmail.com.

Thanks to all who came out for Maggie Whalen's charming performance of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears on Decembe 10th.

Goldilocks opens the Arlington series. . . and the bears' house

The porridge is too hot, so the bears go for a walk. Plucky Goldilocks walks right into their house, forgetting her manners altogether.

Please join Maggie Whalen of Magpie Puppets as she opens a lovely and lively new version of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." She'll perform it as a "tabletop" show, so that she is on-stage with her hand-made puppets. Maggie's website tells more: http://magpiepuppets.com/

The show will be on Saturday, December 10th at 2 pm, the first in the Arlington Center for the Arts series this winter. Tickets are $5, and I can hold a limited number if you e-mail galapagospuppets@gmail.com before Friday, December 9th. Please come for the show and stay for coffee and puppet-play afterwards. Parking onsite. Directions: http://acarts.org/directions.php

Almost spring!

Soon we'll be able to dig in the warm earth and see beautiful flowers. (I believe it, really!) My puppets are starting early. Please join us for "Badger Meets the Fairies" on Saturday, March 12th at 2 pm at:

Arlington Center for the Arts theater

41 Foster Street

Arlington 02474

And please stay afterwards to make simple puppets from paper and cardboard, play with puppets, and enjoy some coffee or tea.

Tickets are $5, available at the door beginning at 1:30. We'll also hold up to twenty tickets (total) if you e-mail me at galapagospuppets@gmail.com by Friday, March 11th.